Baby fight club

Jack had his very first baby fight this weekend.

It was awesome.

Our friends/neighbors had a birthday party for their 4-year-old daughter, Claire, and invited us to attend. Afterward, all the adults hung out at their house with wine/beer while the bigger kids ran around and the little ones walked/crawled around the living room.

Our friends also have an 11-month-old girl, Cate, who Jack plays with quite a bit. She's obviously much bigger than him, but he holds his own pretty well. Our friends are always afraid Cate's going to poke him or knock him down, but I think he needs to learn the ways of these wily women while he's young.

But at the party, there was another 11-month-old. This one was a boy.

I think Jack sensed the little boy was trying to hone in on his woman. So he took the necessary action to protect his turf.

He started screeching at the little boy and lunging at him. Josh was helping him stand and Jack kept trying to throw himself at the little boy.

"Let me at him! Daddy, get off me. No, seriously. I am going to annihilate this kid."

We were totally laughing because he's never had that reaction to another baby before. Usually he's all smiles and laughs and trying to touch them nicely.

I have to believe it was the love triangle that brought it out in him, because he's been around other little boys and been fine. A few weeks ago, we met an online friend of mine (Hi Petra!) at the zoo with her little boy, Dominick. The boys are a week apart in age, and Jack adored hanging out with Dom.

We spread a blanket out on the grass and they were chillin' and talking to each other. Jack wasn't crawling yet then, but Dom was all over the place. Jack would watch him go like "Whoa. I gotta get in on that action."

At one point, Jack started to lean backward and he grabbed Dom and brought him down with him. Kind of a "If I'm going down, you're going down with me, buddy" maneuver.

Clearly, we can expect he won't have a career in the mafia with that attitude.